GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 550

CORE STATE Lexa

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1183 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

127

1,560

geekbench_metal

19,937

23,824

geekbench_opencl

4,575

55,724

geekbench_vulkan

8,657

65,164

passmark_directx_10

N/A

93

passmark_directx_11

N/A

124

passmark_directx_12

N/A

55

passmark_directx_9

N/A

211

passmark_g2d

N/A

888

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,586

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

7,614

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 550

GTX 1080

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

2,560 +400.0%

Shaders

512

2,560 +400.0%

TMUs

32

160 +400.0%

ROPs

16

64 +300.0%

Compute Units

8

—

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1607 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1733 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

320.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

110.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,211.4 GFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

50 W

180 W

TDP (W)

50

180 +260.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

450 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Pascal

GPU Name

Lexa

GP104

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 10

Process Size

14 nm

16 nm

Transistors

2,200 million

7,200 million

Die Size

103 mm²

314 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

21.4M / mm²

22.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

6.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

145 mm 5.7 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

79 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 900

Successor

Vega

GeForce 20

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